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- | Newly discovered Amazon fish species is named after ‘The Lord of the Rings’ villain for its odd pattern | + | Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding |
+ | he ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns. | ||
+ | A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has stuck in the contemporary imagination and become hard to dislodge even as more recent research has suggested that both men and women were among those sacrificed as well as children. A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature adds unexpected detail to that more complex picture. | ||
- | Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the marine creatures lurking | + | The new analysis, based on ancient DNA from the remains |
- | While studying piranhas and pacus in an effort to better assess vital fish biodiversity in the 4,000-mile-long (6,400-kilometer-long) river, an international team of researchers has found and identified | + | “There were two big moments of surprise here,” said lead study author Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher in the department |
- | Besides its odd pearly whites, the newfound species has striking orange and black markings — including a bold vertical black bar stretching across its flank — that the researchers say resemble the fiery eye symbol for the villain Sauron from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” book and film series. The marks inspired the fish’s name, Myloplus sauron, according to a study published Monday in the journal Neotropical Ichthyology. | + | “We were thinking, influenced by traditional archaeology |
- | “Me and the coauthors thought | + | “And the second one (was) when we found out that some of them were related |
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- | The eye-catching fish is not the only animal named for Tolkien’s Dark Lord. A genus of butterflies was found in May 2023 with spots that looked like eyes on its wings, reminding researchers | + | |